The Variety of Values

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For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay qMoral Saintsq to her most recent qThe Importance of Love.q Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love Susan Wolf ... attention, I have taken it for
granted that the kind of love at issue is most centrally exemplified by, if not wholly
restricted to, the kind of love one human being might have for another. ... We talk
of nature lovers and of art lovers, of lovers of basketball and lovers of chocolate.

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The Variety of Values

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Susan Wolf

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Oxford University Press, USA - 2015-01-06

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